Lounge shoot the third
News, Guns ·Sunday October 9, 2011 @ 23:06 EDT (link)
We (Garrett and I, since everyone was technically our guest) took the lounge folk out to SVRC again; perhaps it will become a monthly thing, so long as codgers and sand and boards stay separate. I was there 1030 to a little past 1500; Garrett had to go a bit earlier. There were some other shooters there—didn't have the range to ourselves like before—but as seems typical with "gun people" everyone was for the most part polite and civil. Dmitry, who came to shoot my SCAR-17S (yes, I gotta talk about the SCAR always), asked about people leaving (expensive) gear and guns on the benches while we were at the far end eating, but I wasn't worried. Speaking of the SCAR, this was the first time I had stood next to it being shot, and it packs quite a wallop—but not to the shooter! There was much enjoyment of shooting it by Dmitry, Vu, Tim, and Max.
There was a good sized group, and several plan to apply for membership now, which will be nice; we need a better member-to-guest ratio. The food as usual was excellent—Max and Tim's sous-vide pork and various additions (Christine's brownies were also excellent). Jim's Mini-14 was much better to shoot; last time with different hardware the trigger was horrible; maybe it was cleaned this time (his theory). Tim's Remington 700 in 7mm, wood hardware, trigger job was a delight to shoot (I'm sure the meese will feel the same way), as was his SIG P226; I shot some clays at the end of the pistol range (thanks to whoever let me shoot their clays!); 5 shots, 5 hits, then I chased them around with the rest of the mag. I had been looking at the Elite Dark with the SRT, so may pick one up.
It was good to meet a bunch of people FTF for the first time: Christine's husband Kent; Haidle; I think I'd met Fritz's wife before but it had been a while; Dmitry of course, although he's not lounge; Ron and family; Ben again (new lounger, old shooter), and to see various others again. Although it was damp and drizzly a good time was had… as planned I shot some holes through my map of Manhattan and got some closure for that possibility. Had some feed trouble with my metal AR-15 mag (the one it came with, not a PMAG), but I suspect the AR just needs cleaning. As does everything else. Oh well.
Books finished: Robinson Crusoe, How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes, The Jehovah Contract.
